Evelyn Glennie - "Clapping Music"

To all the comments about Evelyn not being deaf, they are all very untrue... however.. she is definitely not profoundly deaf, I should know as I have had the pleasure of working with her a few years back. When people say deaf, you automatically assume she cannot hear, at all, but she does have little hearing.

Im not doubting that she has a disability which makes the job of being a percussionist harder, but she does use the term cleverly to play on peoples perceptions.

The woman is an inspiration!

you are the one lying, completely deaf people can feel vibrations and you just said that you cannot, you need to stop stalking Evelyn Glennie on every place on the internet, internet stalking is a crime you need to get a life.

WTF.....
I'm really sorry: she is for sure a great percussionist and performer, but this is not Clapping Music at all! (her movements do seem to match the score, but the actual sound...). The pattern shifting is completely lost, and the high woodblock -keeping time- is as unnecessary as annoying as totally out of style. Pity!

What are you talking about, she is playing the piece as two performers would.
Her right hand is playing the primary pattern throughout the performance just as the first (clapping) performer is instructed. And with her left hand she is playing the permutations of that pattern as the second (clapping) performer would. while keeping dotted quarter note pulse in clave pedal. I don't know what you find wrong with this performance. Listen and you can hear the piece.

My .02-

Its repetitive and quite annoying

1 star

when you have an experience like that considering it annoying and repetitive it serves you to take a look at more of steve reich's work, it is all about what's called phase shifts, taking a rhythm and shifting it, in this piece it is by one eight note until the piece has come full circle, you must try and fully understand what is happening to appreciate it, i can barely clap this with someone else rather than perform it by yourself!

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Yes I agree with you, I'm only saying that Evelyn Glennie is not deaf then people started abusive language to me which is unacceptable

She want whole world how amazing she is,
what a great liar